Category: Current Affairs

India, China and Arunachal Pradesh…are we missing something?

Amidst the diplomatic hand-waving and word play that followed Chinese Ambassador Yuxi’s remarks about China’s position on Arunachal Pradesh, one thing must be very clear – almost nothing that comes of any Chinese official...

India seeks Pakistan’s help to combat terrorism!

I did not make this up… Here’s the story from the Daily Telegraph, “India seeks Pakistan’s help against Islamist terrorists”.    It would have been amusing were it not for the countless innocents whose...

All roads lead to Pakistan…(once again)

An article in the IHT (Afghans and NATO routinely find Pakistani link to bombs, Pg 4, Nov 14 ’06 on how the trail of ‘every single member or IED in on e way or...

Continued ignorance about Hinduism…

Meanwhile, ignorance about the basics of Hinduism keeps cropping up in unexpected places…even as a major BBC series (“In Search of God”) mysteriously ignores Hinduism (practiced by more than 800m people; ~15% of the...

Some plain talking…

At least someone has the guts to say it the way it is. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York and the second most senior figure in the Church’s hierarchy made news with this interview with the...